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Cleared the reload Bonus at Canbet today while raking in 4 buy-ins.

Decision time
Now it seems that I've got quite a few choices to make.
While closing in on the 20+ buy-in mark for 200NL I''ve been browsing the 200NL tables at the on-game network. I see many of the same regulars that I see now at 100NL + a few higher stakes regulars. To say the least the games does not look juicy at all. This make me wonder wether I should make the switch to 6-max before moving up to 200NL.
The ideal for me would be to move up to 200NL FR and succed, leaving me with 7-8k next month, cash out 3k and then move to 6-max and continue my climb. I need to cash out sooner or later because I've quit my sucky part time job (I'm still in school), and I need the money. I can borrow money from my parents for a month or two, (they know I play poker and would be willing to lend me money for this "moving-up investment"). Be if my move-up goes bad, its pretty sucky. Then I would be forced to cash out some next time I reach 4k to pay debt. Witch would delay my climb even futher...

I also need to decide where to go next, this obviously depends on wether I move to 6-max or not, I have enjoyed the Ongame network but I'm starting to see more regulars and I've nearly run out of bonuses (still got a Rakeback site left).
I would really like to hear some opinios from you guys both on the FR vs 6-max thing, but also where to go etc etc.

Bankroll: 4471

So I took a shot at 200NL FR at Ongame, very poor game selection, decent amount of regulars. I quit after this hand, biggest pot in my poker career and I lost it. Would somebody please make an EV calculation of this hand, I'm not so good with those yet. I figured his reraising range would be. KJ, AK, 33, JJ, KK, AA. KK and AA are pretty unlikely as I believe he would have reraised me preflop. I'm sure he will lay down KJ and AK 95% percent of the time. He will call me with any set, but against a set I would still have 11 outs. There is also a small chance that he was just trying to steal the pot. So as I said I think this play is +EV but I'm not sure please correct me if I'm wrong ...

Poker Room skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
9 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $262.00
UTG+1: $49.00
MP1: $74.00
MP2: $200.80
MP3: $316.00
Hero: $384.20
Button: $413.30
SB: $328.90
BB: $196.20

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is CO with 9 Spade

T

5 folds, Hero raises to $8, Button calls, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: K Spade

J

3

($25, 3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $18, Button raises to $40, BB folds, Hero raises all-in $358.2, Button calls.

Turn: 3 Heart

($741.4, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $741.4)

River: T Diamond

($741.4, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $741.4)

Results:
Final pot: $741.4
Hero shows 9S10S
Button shows JH JD

Well since my last update I've transfered all my money to Full Tilt to play 200NL, so far I've been doing pretty well 2100 hands 12PTBB/100 for 956$. My first day at Full Tilt was sick, I was running extremely hot making like 1400$ in 1100 hands for 32PT/BB or so. Today I had 2 huge coolers, both of them busted my sets, rivered flushes. But I'm already starting to fell comfortable with the stakes and I definetely believe that I can't beat this level so I consider my move up permanent.

Well the month has passed and its time to make a status. This month I made approximately $3k. One third of this is Bonus monies. My goals for this month got pretty messed up because I had some major problems with Canbet and my handhistories, but I reach my goal of making the move up to 200NL. Next month I will focus solely on improving my game and building my bankroll, so that I can make a sizeable cashout while still adding to the 'roll. I'm going to state some hands played goals tomorrow I think. But for now my plan is to stay at 200NL FR for a month or 2, build the roll, cash out and enjoy myself. Then focus on switching to 6-max. That's pretty much it.

Well enough rambling for now, I'm off to bed now, good luck at the tables.

wow well done man, i think im moving as fast as yourself too. watch these spaces Shocked

how many tables you play? are you indeed playing less as you move up then once comfort hits (not autopilot) you add more. FTP has a horrible rep for being very tough so gl

Well I haven't played much in mar. and I definately wont for the next couple of days, I'm going to Hamburg in Germany for the rest of the week with my class, and were leaving tomorrow morning.

This month I've played 2k hands for -3 buyins. I've ran pretty hot with cards, but dead cold with action, unless when I'm beat, I've also made some stupid calldowns and went to far with TPTK once. When I get home it will be time to play a shitload of hands and get back to basics.

Until then, take care y'all! Cool

Well I'm home from Hamburg now (got home friday actually, but been playing alot of soccer this weekend so no time for poker). I gotta tell you the Hamburg trip was awesome! People were really drunk for 3 days straight, and I mean wasted! No study was done any of the days, so we gotta work our asses of now at home, but I guess thats life.

I just played a quick 500 hands while 4-tabling just to get into the grove again, it worked out pretty well as I ended up 2.5 buy-ins for the night.

Gotta work on getting some more hands in now that I'm home again, only got 2.5k logged an that just wont cut it. But I'm off to bed now, good luck at the tables!

It's been a long time since my last update here, things have not been going as I hoped for so I have not been motivate to update. After running really well at 200NL my first day, I've slowly been losing it all. I have definately not been running well, but I have also made to many bonehead plays. I was pretty frustrating for me with 13k hands of breakeven poker. And even though I know that such streaks happend and it doesn't nessecarily mean that I it's my play that is to bad..
But I have decided that I don't believe my edge is big enough at these games. So I decided to make the switch to 6-max, it had to come sooner or later and I think it will be good for my game with more marginal decisions. Besides now is a good time to make the switch because cardrunners is running a small video series to help SSNL players to get a good solid tag game. I need to start posting a lot of hands now because even though I haven't played so much yet I run into many situations where I don't know what to do or and how to act. I started out with the Prima network as they have plenty of bonusses and quite juicy games. I play 100NL and plan to stay here for a while. This means that I can withdraw some of my roll to pay of some debt, which well be nice to get out of the way, it's about $1800. I've been thinking about calculating my average earn per 14 days, and then withdraw 33% percent of that, regardsless of how it goes, I've read about this at cardrunners. I know this will slow the build of my roll, but after take a stab at the 200NL games I see that I still have plenty to learn at the 100NL level, so this suits me fine.

That's enough talking now let's get some graphs.

Iknow my stats are a bit to nitty but I'm still working on my preflop game.

Now here is a hand where I diden't know how to act. (I'm probably a donk for even posting hand like this):
- Sorry but I haven't found a Prima converter yet.

** Game ID 1276271960 starting - 2007-03-21 19:06:53
** Jos诨a [Hold 'em] (0.50|1.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- -Alpha66 sitting in seat 2 with $230.97 [Dealer]
- xklangex sitting in seat 3 with $96.50
- -Brann- sitting in seat 4 with $45.66
- Tommyone sitting in seat 5 with $106.05
- kalei sitting in seat 6 with $100.07

xklangex posted the small blind - $0.50
-Brann- posted the big blind - $1.00
** Dealing card to -Alpha66: Queen of Clubs, Queen of Spades
Tommyone called - $1.00
kalei called - $1.00
-Alpha66 raised - $6.00
xklangex called - $6.00
-Brann- called - $6.00
Tommyone called - $6.00
kalei called - $6.00

** Dealing the flop: 5 of Spades, 4 of Clubs, 2 of Diamonds
xklangex checked
-Brann- went all-in - $40.66
Tommyone folded
kalei called - $40.66
-Alpha66 ?

To my full ring eyes, this looks like a set or a draw. When the other guy calls he could have set aswell or more likely an overpair. What do you guys think?

Bankroll currently stands at 5537$ but I'm planning to withdraw 2037$ tonight.

So my new bankroll for 100NL 6-max will be: 3500$ Very Happy

gl with the switch. didnt realise your BR was that large either.

my stats of VPIP and PFR and very similiar to yours so i know the way you are playing, im working on loosing up MP and LP. more so MP actually. You will have to work harder for 6max now since you wont really be comfortable with the PF hand ranges, it will take some getting used to.

GL

In that spot you fold your pocket queens. You have an overbet push and call before you. One pair isn't profitable against the action, unless you have a loose read on one or both of the players.

Played 2500 hands today, for -1.5 BI.
SUCK!

I'm on a 4k breakeven streak now, really boring. Not much to do about it really, but I should still work on thinking before calling big bets, I'm such a donkey sometimes, I don't know why I do it. Some thing to lock the pokerwindow for 10 secs everytime I'm faced with a 50< bet that would be neat.

Well I won't be playing anymore in march. Pretty disappointing month to say the least.. My move up to 200NL FR diden't go as well as I would have liked it to and I'm currently on a breakeven/downswing at 100NL 6max.
My change to 6max has been bringin new life into my poker career, alot of things to work on, discuss and get better at. I hope to learn a lot these next few months.

My approach to BR building has also changed this month, instead of adding all my winnings to the BR each month, I'm now going to cash-out 1/3 of my expected winnings (playing+Bonus) every second week. I do this because it won't be relevant for me to move up anytime soon, so I might as well enjoy the money while I'm learning 6-max.

Now some stats and a graph for the month.

And a hand I think is pretty standard, but meh..

** Game ID 1291940593 starting - 2007-03-29 17:27:27
** Words Of Wisdom [Hold 'em] (0.50|1.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- stevieval sitting in seat 1 with $97.30 [Dealer]
- henkan74 sitting in seat 2 with $78.79
- Florre sitting in seat 3 with $191.63
- -Alpha66 sitting in seat 5 with $97.00
- humle333 sitting in seat 6 with $112.70

henkan74 posted the small blind - $0.50
Florre posted the big blind - $1.00
** Dealing card to -Alpha66: King of Clubs, Ace of Clubs
-Alpha66 raised - $4.00
humle333 folded
stevieval called - $4.00
henkan74 folded
Florre called - $4.00

** Dealing the flop: 4 of Clubs, 7 of Clubs, 6 of Spades
Florre checked
-Alpha66 bet - $7.00
stevieval called - $7.00
Florre raised - $20.25
-Alpha66 went all-in - $86.00
stevieval folded
Florre called - $93.00

** Dealing the turn: Ace of Diamonds

** Dealing the river: Ace of Hearts
-Alpha66 shows: King of Clubs, Ace of Clubs
Florre shows: 5 of Clubs, 8 of Diamonds
Florre wins $203.50 from the main pot

Bankroll going into April: 3580

Started April today with a 2.5 buyins day, played 3 sessions for a total of 1600 hands, running 16/12/5. I've been watching a lot of CR videos and they have made me think so much deeper about my game, and I'm working on a lot of things in my game right now and I think I'm on my way to being a thinking NL player now. Better not promise to much though Very Happy

Wow, what a day, started up 4.5 buyins, ended down -.5. Been taking a lot of beats these last 2 days. Made me tilt off 1 buyin at one of the tables today, overplaying my OESD. What I did notice today was that I bet the river far to often, often when scarecards comes, and you would be amazed to see what peopele call down with. Once you check the turn, most people will call down any medium sized river bet, regardless of which card comes. Oh well, hopefully I'll run better soon.

3600 hands @100NL
for $186 at 2.63PTBB

A good solid day today, up 1.5 buyins. Would have been alot sweater until this sucker caught his 3-outer.

** Blattaria [Hold 'em] (0.50|1.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- larplarplarp sitting in seat 1 with $100.00 [Sitting out]
- Beari sitting in seat 2 with $88.80
- -Alpha66 sitting in seat 3 with $101.35
- fabi160 sitting in seat 4 with $155.04
- Osnygg sitting in seat 5 with $100.70
- twoweeducks sitting in seat 6 with $53.29 [Dealer]

Beari posted the small blind - $0.50
-Alpha66 posted the big blind - $1.00
** Dealing card to -Alpha66: Queen of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts
fabi160 called - $1.00
Osnygg folded
twoweeducks raised - $4.00
Beari folded
-Alpha66 raised - $13.00
fabi160 called - $13.00
twoweeducks called - $13.00

** Dealing the flop: Ace of Hearts, Queen of Spades, Ace of Spades
-Alpha66 checked
fabi160 checked
twoweeducks checked

** Dealing the turn: 8 of Hearts
-Alpha66 bet - $22.00
fabi160 called - $22.00
twoweeducks folded

** Dealing the river: King of Spades
-Alpha66 went all-in - $67.35
fabi160 called - $67.35
-Alpha66 shows: Queen of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts
fabi160 shows: Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts
fabi160 wins $216.20 from the main pot

5200 hands @100NL 6-max
+$549 at 5.23PTBB

Wow what a session, -4.25 buyins. This was pretty sick, AA<KK 150bbs deep, set<FD 130bbs deep, KK<6-outer on river ... Some dude slowplaying KK hit his set while i hit top2. Alright I'll stop now but you get the picture, pretty frustrating..

Well, I think I'm about to break a 11 buyin downswing. I'm +3 for the last 2 days. Lot of these 11 buyins were coolers, but in the end I started to play bad as well. Being pretty frustrated with it all I decided to get a coach, first we played for 1:15 and he decided what to do, and told me why and so on and so forth. The biggest thing I picked up here was to loosen up a lot, and slowplay TPTK and sets on monotone flops occasionally, hoping to extract calls from lower pairs and such. Then we did a 45mins PokerTracker review, this helped me a lot, not that I picked up on anything worth mentioning, but because he examined alot of my marginal loosing plays and told me he probably would have played it the same. This really boosted my confidence, and if that was the only thing I picker up from that 2 hour lesson (which it wasn't) then I would still feel it was worth the money.

Anyways I'm still down 75$ for the month pokerwise+125 for coaching+125 for full member sign-up at cardrunners. But I am about to finish a 500$ Bonus, so my month has been just about break-even so far.

Bankroll: 3755

Just sick... I get it in with the best of it in 2 huge pots, 270bbs and 330bbs both outdrawn by flushes. AA cracked by gutshots, set cracked by runner runner straight. Sick.

who u charging coaching? or basically how are you doing that?

I found a coach through cardrunners, he was able to see my monitor trough some feature in AIM pro. We then discussed what to do and why through skype. It worked out pretty good except for the lag, because the distance from Denmark to the US is so great. But I think it was pretty good and I think I will have another lesson when I move up to 200NL.

I think this type of thing could be helpful for most peoples games, even if you aren't taught by a pro, it really make you think about your game because you have to defend your actions all the time.

As for poker I'm on a 7-buyin upswing, my month is still miserable, $300+, but for now I'm just glad I left the downswing behind Very Happy

Well well, another month went by Smile

This has been a rough month, but it ended well. I feel like I improved a lot, I've maded a few notes this past month, and even though they are very simple I found that just reading them before I play and help me a lot. I'll post them here tomorrow I think.
I've cut the idea of cashing out a bit of my bankroll every 2 weeks, at least until I am at 200NL, which I will hopefully be soon. My bankroll currently stands at $5150 but I will have to cash some out for some monthly bills tomorrow, I dont know how much it will be yet but between $3-400 I think. When I reach $5k again after my cash-out I'm going to take a shot at 200NL to see how it goes, I feel like my game can handle the 200NL on Prima.

But now for some numbers/graphs Very Happy

Whole month

Last 10K

Graph for whole month

Jesus what a session. I've newer been sucked out on like that, it was insane, 3-6 outers, all of them hit, I won 2 pots over $20 in like 400 hands. Then I had my Kings allin with aces for 150bbs, sigh.
- $340 what a start to May.

Gotta go blow some steam off to soccer practice, better not stand in my way Mad

Well, I've taken a shot at 200NL and after 5k hands Im just about breakeven, I've had some decent variance, but I've made some ridiculos mistakes. This leads me into thinking that I can beat this level, but I still don't know. The mistakes I made was mostly due to fancy play syndrome, and to counter that I've added 2 more tables, so im playing 6 now. This has taken me from a 23/19 semi lag to a 18/16 TAG, This is actually fine with me, I think TAG gets paid off just fine, and I can make more Bonus money playing more tables, so I don't mind it really. Just hoping I can make it at 200NL, even a 3PTBB winrate plus bonuses is some serious money to me.

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